Section: US & Canada

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP chairman of the House Armed Service Committee is recommending a $604 billion defense budget for 2016 that challenges the White House by including lethal weapons for Ukraine and making it harder for the president to empty the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. …read more Source: U.S....

In this photo from 2003, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with then-prime minister Jean Chretien during a bi-lateral meeting at the Hotel Royal in Evian, France, during a G8 summit.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) The West and Russia are locked in a tense and bitter stand-off, as if the Cold War has been revived. The Crimea Peninsula...

The pro-Russian rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine receive significant weaponry from the Kremlin and have committed atrocities against Ukrainian forces, according to a former Russian volunteer for the insurgents. In an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian businessman Bondo Dorovskikh said he decided to volunteer for the...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Monday that his country will be able to meet the conditions to apply for European Union membership within five years, while European Union officials rejected his request call for an EU peace-keeping mission to eastern Ukraine, where a year of fighting between government and Russia-backed separatist forces...

Bosnian Muslims say they’re surprised that the House of Commons did not include the 1995 Srebrenica massacre last week during its acknowledgment of 20th-century genocides. Parliament unanimously passed the motion designating April as Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month. It cited four atrocities: the Holocaust, the 1915...

Earlier this month, the map of Europe was redrawn yet again. This time, the cartographer-in-chief was neither Putin (Ukraine) nor NATO (Kosovo), but the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. For years, geographers had wondered where to place his little country on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Was it still in Europe? Or was it already in Central...

To keep up with Democracy Lab in real time, follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Josh Cohen warns that a new law passed by the Ukrainian parliament — which honors nationalist groups that participated in the Holocaust — is a dangerous mistake. In light of last week’s horrific migrant boat sinking in the Mediterranean, Mohamed Eljarh gives us...